Chapter 11 Web links

Useful websites

Reports, guides, and comments

• Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme (2014)

  On 30 April 2014, the Home Secretary announced the introduction of the Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme.

• Briefing paper 7: race disproportionality in stops and searches, 2011-12

  This briefing paper, published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, sets out the results of their research into race disproportionality in police stops and searches.

• Charging (The Director's Guidance) 2013

  The Director of Public Prosecution’s Guidance on Charging.

• The Code for Crown Prosecutors

  This code sets out the tests to be applied by police and prosecutors when deciding whether to charge someone with an offence.

• Joint Inspection of The Provision of Charging Decisions (2015)

  A report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) on the provision of charging decisions.

• Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) codes of practice

  Links to the current versions of each of the Codes of Practice which accompany the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

• Role of the PCC

  An explanation of the role of the Police and Crime Commissioner on the website of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCCS).

• Victims' Right to Review Scheme

  This scheme enables victims of crime to more easily challenge a CPS decision not to bring charges, or to terminate proceedings.

Useful videos

• Behind the scenes at Harlow custody

  This video, produced by Essex Police, shows a police custody suite and outlines the procedures that are followed when an arrested person is brought in to the police station.

• R (on the application of Roberts) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and another

  In December 2015, the Supreme Court gave judgment in the case of R (Roberts) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis & Another [2015] UKSC 79.